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7301904 No.7301904 [Reply] [Original]

What is the ideal length for a book?

>> No.7301928

correlates with ideal length of an ice bath

>> No.7301934

What the ideal length of a piece of string?

>> No.7301939

>>7301934
Is a string ever long enough to not be considered a piece?

>> No.7301942

>>7301934
About three fiddy.

>> No.7301948

Somewhere between 0 and 2500 pages.

>> No.7301960

>>7301948
Font size is arbitrary though.

>> No.7302056

~300 pages, assuming you're not using a retarded font size.

>> No.7302087

8 inches

>> No.7302136

>>7301904
700 - 800 pages or basically something you can finish in a day or two. Anything bigger risks to get too tedious to read. Besides, it's unlikely that the reader would appreciate your awesome foreshadowing on page four if the book has two thousands pages.